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Directors' report period ended
The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 March 2025
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 April 2024
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31 March 2025
The director shown below has held office during the period of
1 April 2024
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10 December 2024
The director shown below has held office during the period of
11 November 2024
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31 March 2025
The directors shown below have held office during the period of
1 July 2024
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31 March 2025
The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions in part 15 of the Companies Act 2006
This report was approved by the board of directors on
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Status: Director
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This year, we enhanced our support for people seeking sanctuary, older adults, and those navigating long-term health challenges. Together, we’ve proven that dance and the arts can be a bridge to hope, healing, and belonging. A key focus for the year was our commission as part of Calderdale’s Year of Culture, ‘Culturedale’, which included: - Series 2 of our podcast, ‘Calder Navigation’: sharing inspiring stories from a further 13 local people, including people seeking sanctuary, filmmakers, artists, writers, lifelong residents, and a health psychologist. Our podcast had 1.4K listens this year, and has had a total of 2.6K listens over its lifetime. - The creation and debut of our Performance Company - an inclusive dance performance and creative group for adults of all ages who collaborate as performers and co-choreographers with our professional dancers. This year the company re-imagined a dance piece that we piloted in 2023, ‘This Here Land’, resulting in the presentation of a new work that took inspiration from our local community and invited people to explore how we might build community together now and in the future. - Welland Festival: a special one-day arts for wellbeing festival in Elland as a finale celebration of CultureDale; featuring performances, workshops, stalls, and exhibitions from artists and providers across Calderdale. The festival finale included the debut performance of ‘This Here Land’ from our Performance Company, which was a highlight of the year. The festival engaged 400 people in inclusive and accessible arts for health activity in Elland across the day. We have continued to prioritise the areas of Elland and the wider lower valley of Calderdale, completing year 2 of our multi-year project The Welland Activator. This project continues to offer a year-round programme of classes and workshops alongside our podcast, festival and performance group. In early 2025 we also added ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) drop-in sessions after much consultation with our refugee and sanctuary seeking community about ways to further support their access to our work. Our local sanctuary seeking community has become a key area of focus for us due to positive relationship building and a clear area of need. Part of this offer this year included a special Refugee Week event, ‘Our Home’, inviting local people to enjoy dance and music performances centred around personal experiences and stories from around the world. This was the first time we had offered performance as a key focus for an event, and it was very well received. 57 local residents, including refugees, attended and have expressed their interest in us offering more in the future. 100% of audience members said they had an increased awareness and understanding of other cultures because of our event. Our signature ‘Brews & Grooves’ sessions for older people also form part of our core offer, supporting 15 people each week throughout the year. The group has built strong and lasting relationships with each other and our team. As the year ended the group was invited to be part of a film and were given their first opportunity to perform live. This was a significant moment for this group and we look forward to seeing the outcomes of this next year. Partnerships with other local charities and providers have also continued to strengthen. We continue to engage regularly with St Augustine’s Centre, Healthy Minds, Project Colt, Calderdale Valley of Sanctuary, Primary Care Networks (NHS), and the wider health and social care sector. We also expanded our team with the introduction of an Interim Manager/Producer role whilst our Artistic Director/CEO began her maternity leave in January 2025. The need for this role has enabled us to reflect on the future development of our team alongside welcoming a new member to meet current need. This has offered valuable learnings and ideas that we will take forward into 2025-26. In December 2024 we celebrated Curious Motion’s fifth birthday with our community. This was a significant moment for us, celebrating our achievements and resilience over the past five years and bringing people together from across our community to thank them for their contribution and support. We continue to gather feedback from our community across all aspects of our work: ‘Nice to see someone's hidden talents bloom in a community who welcome without barriers.’ ‘The experience was so beautifully held, facilitated, and they were all just such wonderful people. They hold you in the space, meet your physical needs, meet your emotional needs, but most of all encourage you to keep working and creating.’ ‘I have had experiences in my life where I’ve felt closed down, or become shy, or felt ashamed, or afraid, but I didn’t feel that in this performance. I felt anything I contributed would be welcomed, and anything I did differently would be welcomed.’ ‘Exactly what Elland needs to help rebuild community.’ ‘I am in awe of what you put together and for all the joy that you have clearly brought to a lot of people.’ As always, we continue to offer our gratitude our community for their support and guidance.
Our stakeholders continue to be our project participants, the artists and practitioners we work with, our board, our partners, and the wider community of Calderdale, particularly residents in the lower valley and Elland areas. We have created robust processes to ensure we regularly consult with our stakeholders to obtain feedback, learn from their experiences, and shape our ideas. This takes place via informal conversations during and after our projects, creative activities, meetings, and one-to-one chats. We also collate this information to report back to our funders and provide an overall evaluation of our impact. Our Sounding Board steering group has also continued to meet quarterly this year, with 9 members attending. This continues to be an essential part of our development and strategic approach, ensuring our community leads our development. Our Sounding Board also continues to connect with our Board of Directors and one member also joined as a Director this year. This year we also published our second Impact Report, which is distributed widely amongst our stakeholders and wider community.
Please see our accounts for details of directors’ remuneration. Samantha McCormick continued to be employed in the role of Artistic Director/CEO this year, with a salary of £36,750 pro rata at 3.5 days per week. Samantha was on maternity leave from January to March 2025. Total remuneration received this year was £21712. This is also listed in our accounts. There were no other transactions or arrangements in connection with the remuneration of directors, or compensation for director’s loss of office, which require to be disclosed.
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
25 September 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Samantha McCormick
Status: Director